Every Friday, host Sandy Davis and co-host Claudia Cuevas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, sit down for the Architecture of Reinvention Roundtable to go deeper into the themes from that week's guest conversation.
This week, following Callie Greenberg's episode, Sandy and Claudia unpack one of the most vulnerable conversations in the series, covering a delayed endometriosis diagnosis, infertility, chronic pain dismissed for years by doctors, and a covert narcissistic marriage that mirrored the same gaslighting Callie experienced in medicine. Claudia breaks down the calculated cycle of abuse and love bombing, and why chronic trauma changes brain chemistry in ways that make traditional talk therapy feel impossible for some survivors, and why alternative modalities like somatic work exist alongside it, not instead of it.
Sandy also opens up about her own trauma response live on air, the trembling voice and dry mouth that showed up the first time she spoke publicly about her own childhood, and what it means to be the woman everyone assumes is simply wise, when the truth is she is carrying decades of unprocessed pain underneath the composure.
What You Will Hear in This Episode
The calculated cycle of abuse and love bombing, explained.
How Callie was gaslit by doctors and gaslit at home, at the same time.
Why chronic trauma rewires the brain toward survival mode, and away from talk therapy.
Alternative modalities, including somatic work, ketamine, and psychedelics, and why they work alongside talk therapy, not instead of it.
The neuroscience of a panic attack, and why the brain works so hard to prevent the next one.
Sandy's own trauma response live on the Raw Onion podcast.
How to start the conversation with a therapist when you do not know where to begin.
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